Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo, Salvatore (1901–68), Italian poet and translator of poetry awarded the 1959 Nobel Prize for literature. During and after World War II he turned (originally because of his opposition to fascism) from a complex, introverted, “hermetic” style to social protest and examination of the plight of the individual, as in Day after Day (1947). His first poems were collected in Waters and Lands (1930).